Re: TRAMP User Manual problems with Texinfo 5.0

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:36:21 +0100
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> 
> Next issue is with construct like
> 
>    some text @set x
> 
> as a similar construct happens in the @trampfn/@xxx macro expansion.
> the beginning of the @trampfn macro expansion.  It gives a
> warning in the new makeinfo implementation:
> 
>   d.texi:1: warning: @set should only appear at a line beginning
> 
> 
> Nothing in the manual says that @set/@clear should be at the beginning
> of a line.  Should I remove that warning?

That trick is used to simulate a macro with variable number of
arguments (by leaving some arguments empty).  Without allowing
@set/@clear in the middle of text, such tricks will never work.